RE: Changes in platforms, changes in attitude....

Recently I went HP/Compaq/Dec Alpha --> Solaris
We ruled out the idea of moving database blocks directly as being too
risky.

The main three methods I found with great help from people on this list
were:

Export/import as you mention

SQL*Net

Extract the data to a flat file and use SQL*Loader.
You can locate the discussion thread by going to Google and entering
Oracle-L "quickest method".
Just based on what people recalled from their previous tests on various
platforms conducted at various times, the speed seemed to be:

SQL*Loader, and very scalable with parallel sessions, but the most
effort as well.

SQL*Net, but watch scalability across your network.

Export/import
With SQL*Loader it is difficult to create the flat file on the host server.
If you can write a Perl program, especially if it will read the table
dictionary, in theory that one program could create all your flat files.
Then you must create SQL*Loader scripts for each table. You could have Perl
write the data to the target system, but then you are essentially
duplicating the SQL*Net method.
You wouldn't use the SQL*Loader method for every table, but use Pareto's
Principle (a.k.a. the 80/20 method). In nearly any database, a small handful
of tables hold the bulk of the data.
I have not heard where RMAN would help you accomplish the tasks. I am not
familiar with Veritas.
For us, in the end, it turned out the new server could actually import
faster than the old server could export. My problems vanished at that
moment.

Been awhile since I have re-platformed a database from HP to SUN. :-( And
we had to do the infamous rman or import/export approach.

But now I'm getting involved in a move of databases from SUN to HP. Are the
requirements still to *migrate* the database via rman/export/import? Or have
the block structures become *exact* where OS/Veritas utilities can be made
useful. I'm sitting on a conference call, and we get to work thru moving
60+ databases in range from 1GB to 3TB from SUN to HP:-)

Just looking for some quick feedback -

Thanks in advance!

Greg Loughmiller

Sr Manager - Enterprise Data Architecture

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